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St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

Jonathan Williams

New chief enjoying Crestwood

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter May 28, 2021

Crestwood welcomed a new police chief to its department earlier this year after hiring Jonathan Williams, a former lieutenant with the Webster Groves Police Department. Williams is taking the helm from...

Metro Transit is rolling out a new design for buses, as seen above, which will be slowly rolled out across the fleet as buses come in for maintenance.

Metro resumes most pre-pandemic bus routes in Missouri as of March 15

March 6, 2021

Metro Transit will make adjustments to 45 bus routes in Missouri and Illinois Monday, March 15, as part of a quarterly service change. These adjustments will increase service frequency for many MetroBus...

Rain didn’t stop South County from enjoying the 20th year of the JB Blast at Jefferson Barracks
Park Wednesday, July 3, 2019, featuring live music, an appearance from County Executive Sam Page and
a fireworks show.

Webster Groves Fourth of July fireworks and parade are postponed this year

July 2, 2020

The Webster Groves Fourth of July fireworks have been postponed this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Webster Groves Community Days parade and Fourth of July fireworks have been a tradition for...

St. Louis County released this geographic data of coronavirus cases Friday, the first time the countys cases had been publicly sorted by ZIP code.

Some areas of South County, St. Louis County hit harder than others by coronavirus

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor April 3, 2020

Updated at 4:25 p.m. April 3 with update on Crestwood and Sunset Hills, plus more North County ZIP codes.  Some areas of South County and St. Louis County are being hit harder by the coronavirus than...

Mother charged with stabbing daughter in attempted murder-suicide in Fenton hotel

Mother charged with stabbing daughter in attempted murder-suicide in Fenton hotel

November 19, 2019

A woman stabbed her daughter and tried to stab herself in an attempted murder-suicide at the Holiday Inn Express in Fenton Tuesday, police said. Police say officers arrived about 12:34 p.m. and found...

Crestwood City Hall

Crestwood rejects Sunset Hills bike ride on Route 66

May 31, 2018

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com What seemed to be a thriving partnership between Sunset Hills and Crestwood could hit the skids over a night bicycle ride similar to the...

Oakville girls’ basketball team wins first district championship since 2009

Oakville girls’ basketball team wins first district championship since 2009

March 8, 2018

By Robert Chalupny For the Call Update: The Tigers lost to Kirkwood in the sectional championship 49-40 Wednesday. The Oakville High School girls’ varsity basketball team squeezed out a narrow victory...

Affton woman rams car into construction zone worker in Webster Groves, police say

Affton woman rams car into construction zone worker in Webster Groves, police say

December 8, 2017

An Affton woman was charged this week with hitting a construction worker with her car in Webster Groves Monday. Kelly Bienvenue, 54, of the 7300 block of Forest Haven Estates in Affton, faces a charge...

The Call Newspapers team with the thousands of donations from south county for the USO for Thanksgiving 2017.

Residents of south county create USO of Missouri’s most successful food drive ever

By Gloria Lloyd, Staff Reporter November 30, 2017

The fifth annual Operation October food drive to benefit the USO of Missouri brought in record levels of food for Thanksgiving dinners for military families this year thanks to a new sponsorship by Call...

Drop off prescription drugs this weekend at local police stations

Drop off prescription drugs this weekend at local police stations

October 27, 2017

The St. Louis County Police Department, Sunset Hills Police Department and other local police departments will be participating in the annual National Take Back Initiative from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday,...

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